The beauty of Alexa is that all of these devices come with the same brain that can offer numerous same experiences.

Firstly, the standard Amazon Echo has been redesigned with a shorter tower and a range of colours and styles - it now comes in everything from "charcoal fabric" to "oak finish" and even a very sleek looking metallic silver. In addition, the device uses the company's second generation far-field technology, offering improved wake word processing, beamforming technology, and enhanced noise cancellation. This means Alexa can be added to your home entertainment system.

The move is Amazon's attempt to retain its significant monopoly in the smart-speaker device range, now making up 75% of the U.S. market, with as many as 15mn echo devices having been sold to date.

Furthermore, year-over-year growth in Echo Device sales on Amazon's July 11 Prime Day was astounding. The $99 Echo also works as a smart home hub, but the Echo Plus includes additional hardware that reportedly makes smart home device connections easier and entirely voice-activated. But, more likely, some new Echos will drive use cases that become way more popular than others, helping Amazon to focus more on fewer variations over the long-term. The Fire TV 4K has a 1.5Ghz quad-core processor inside.

But if the Echo doesn't catch your eye (or your ear), there's also a new Alexa-enabled Fire TV with 4K and HDR support.

Amazon announced six new Amazon-Alexa powered devices yesterday including the new Echo, Echo Plus, Echo Spot, FireTV with Alexa remote, Echo Connect and Echo buttons. It's also possible that Amazon is going to launch its much-rumored Fire TV set-top box and Fire TV Stick at this event.

In fact, the Fire TV can be connected to your existing grid of smart home devices, and all of those can be controlled via voice commands. Both are available for pre-order today, and will be available in October 2017.

Amazon also launched a $35 Alexa accessory called Echo Connect. You can use it to make video calls and can connect it to external speakers via cable or Bluetooth.

Just ask for a song, artist, or genre from Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, and more.

Limp's statement, though, runs somewhat counter to Google's official comment, which claims that "Amazon's implementation of YouTube on the Echo Show violates our terms of service, creating a broken user experience". Moreover, now users can make calls on Echo Spot via its built-in camera feature.

Starting mid-2018, you will begin to see Amazon's digital and voice assistant, Alexa, in BMW and MINI vehicles.

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